'Dear in the Headlights' women's comedy event coming to Manitowoc

8:31 PM,
Nov. 13, 2013

Kathy Kowalski, left, and Liysa Callsen, both wearing blaze orange camouflage, pose over Ellen Peronto, pretending to be road kill, for a deer hunting sketch comedy act they will be performing at the 'Dear in the Headlights' comedy show on Nov. 23 in Manitowoc.

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Ann Grote-Pirrung
For HTR Media

While men venture out into the woods for deer hunting, area women (and men, too) are being invited to their own "dear" extravaganza - the "Dear in the Headlights" comedy show, which is scheduled for Nov. 23 at City Limits Bar (formerly Club Bil-Mar), 3627 Manitowoc County C, Manitowoc.

Manitowoc's Liysa Callsen, producer of the event, said it's the ultimate women's comedy event of the year in northeast Wisconsin.

"I'd always been into comedy and improv and I had this vision for Manitowoc to have a comedy festival. But, it wasn't the right time," said Callsen, a comedienne who has trained at ...